Black Bottom was a predominantly black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan. The term has sometimes been used to apply to the entire neighborhood including Paradise Valley, but many consider the two neighborhoods to be separate. [1]

Black Bottom was a predominantly Black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan demolished for redevelopment in the late 1950s to early 1960s and replaced with the Lafayette Park residential district and a freeway.

During its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s, the legendary Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom was home to more than a hundred thousand African Americans and their businesses.

Black Bottom was the center of Black life in Detroit, beginning in the early 1900's and continuing through the Great Migration, when Black people moved to the city in large numbers from the American South.

2022年2月15日 · Considered one of the poorest sections of the city at the time, the Black Bottom neighborhood had hundreds of mostly-Black residents, over 100 mostly-Black-owned businesses, several schools, churches, and cultural landmarks.

Black Bottom was a predominantly Black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan demolished for redevelopment in the late 1950s to early 1960s and replaced with the Lafayette Park residential district and a freeway, according to the Detroit Historical Society.

2019年2月27日 · In the late summer of 1949, three little boys sat on the curb outside 1231 Riopelle St., in Detroit’s now-vanished Black Bottom neighborhood, taking in what must have been an unusual sight: A city employee was heading slowly down the street, methodically photographing each address.

This was a predominantly Black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, United States. "Black Bottom" often references the African American community that developed in the twentieth century. Early white-French colonial settlers named the neighborhood.

2019年2月11日 · Before its demolition in the mid-1950s, Black Bottom was a thriving Detroit neighborhood with a large African-American and immigrant community. Interstate 75 was built through what once was the Black Bottom neighborhood. Here's what that area of the city looks like today. What is lost when an urban area is “renewed?”

In the twentieth century, Black Bottom became one of the most vibrant African American districts in Detroit. Located northeast of downtown, Black Bottom was bound by Gratiot, Brush, Vernor and the Grand Trunk Railroad.